Research IT Services

The Research IT Services (RITS) department develops, delivers and
operates services to assist UCL researchers in meeting their objectives
at each stage of the research lifecycle. These pages are here to help UCL researchers and other users to take
full advantage of our services and include comprehensive user guides,
contact information for support queries, and details about forthcoming
training and events.

News & related information

News articles

We are pleased to announce that the next call for proposals
for free research software development is now open. UCL researchers are invited
to submit projects which will benefit from collaboration with the Research
Software Development Team.

Software Carpentry is
a volunteer organisation whose goal is to make scientists more productive, and
their work more reliable, by teaching them basic computing skills. Founded in
1998, it runs short, intensive workshops that cover program design, version
control, testing, and task automation. In October 2014, a non-profit Software
Carpentry Foundation was created to act as a governing body for the project.

Compressive
sensing is a recent breakthrough in information theory that has the potential
to revolutionise the acquisition and analysis of data in many fields. UCL
Research IT Services (RITS) are an integral part of a team that recently
secured grants from the UK research councils to develop compressive sensing
techniques to address the challenge of extracting meaningful information from
big-data.

The Research IT Services annual forum was held
on Tuesday 17th June this year, and included talks explaining how
Research IT Services can facilitate your research, demonstrations of our
services, and the opportunity to speak directly with members of
RITS Staff and network with fellow researchers from across UCL. See the programme for further details; links to the presentations will shortly appear here.